Research Associates

Susana G. Sotocinal
Jean-Sebastien Austin


Postdoctoral Fellows

Andrea L. Bailey
Robert Sorge


Graduate Students

Ara Schorscher-Petcu
Melissa Farmer



Undergraduate Student Assistants


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Jean-Sebastian Austin, B.Sc.
2002-present

Director of Transcriptomics

  • Mogil, J.S., Miermeister, F., Seifert, F., Strasburg, K., Zimmermann, K., Reinold, H., Austin, J.-S., Bernardini, N., Chesler, E.J., Hofmann, H.A., Hordo, C., Messlinger, K., Nemmani, K.V., Rankin, A.L., Ritchie, J., Siegling, A., Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S., Vater, A., Lehto, S.G., Klussmann, S., Quirion, R., Michaelis, M., Devor, M., and Reeh, P.W.  Variable sensitivity to noxious heat is mediated by differential expression of the CGRP gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A., 102:12938-12943, 2005.
  • Smith, S.B., Marker, C.L., Perry, C., Liao, G., Sotocinal, S.G., Austin, J.-S., Melmed, K., Clark, D.J., Peltz, G., Wickman, K., and Mogil, J.S.  Quantitative trait locus and computational mapping identifies Kcnj9 as a candidate gene affecting analgesia from multiple drug classes. Pharmacogenet. Genom., 18:231-242, 2008.
  • Schorscher-Petcu, A. Austin, J.-S., Mogil, J.S., and Quirion, R. Role of central calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in locomotor, anxiety- and depression-like behaviors in two mouse strains exhibiting a CGRP-dependent difference in thermal pain sensitivity.  J. Molec. Neurosci., 39:125-136, 2009.
  • LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Mo, G., Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S.G., Ritchie, J., Austin, J.-S., Melmed, K., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Laferriere, A., Lee, T.H., Romanovsky, D., Liao, G., Behlke, M.A., Clark, J.D., Peltz, G., Seguela, P., Dobretsov, M., and Mogil, J.S.  The beta3 subunit of the Na+,K+-ATPase mediates variable nociceptive sensitivity in the formalin test.  Pain, 144:294-302, 2009.
  • Kest, B., Smith, S.B., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Austin, J.-S., Ritchie, J., Klein, G., Rossi, G.C., Fortin, A., and Mogil, J.S.  Gnao1 (Galphao protein) is a likely genetic contributor to variation in physical dependence on opioids in mice.  Neuroscience, 162:1255-1264, 2009.
  • Malfait, A.-M., Ritchie, J., Gil, A.S., Austin, J.-S., Hartke, J., Qin, W., Tortorella, M.D., and Mogil, J.S.  ADAMTS-5 deficient mice do not develop mechanical allodynia associated with osteoarthritis following medial meniscal destabilization.  Osteoarthrits Cartilage, 18:572-580, 2010.
  • Mogil, J.S., Graham, A.C., Ritchie, J., Hughes, S.F., Austin, J.-S., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Langford, D.J., and Bennett, G.J. Hypolocomotion, asymmetrically directed behaviors (licking, lifting, flinching, and shaking) and dynamic weight bearing (gait) changes are not measures of neuropathic pain in mice.  Mol. Pain, 6:34, 2010.